Jeff Dunham
is a comedian ventriloquist with an incredible talent. Each
puppet has its own personality, voiceprint and jokes. Warning:
the shows available for purchase contain a significant amount of
sexual language and insinuations.

Portal
is a game which lets the player go through portals, "skipping"
the space between them. This is what fluons
are about, so you can experience how it would be to travel
through fluons.

Wearable
displays will be a big part of out lives in the near future.
Though they will be integrated in normal glasses, they will
display images even better than today's desk monitors.

Tesla
Motors makes the electric cars designed and built so far look
clumsy. They are truly changing the common perception in design,
performance, efficiency. Hardly a common price tag, but hey, it's
here! (Great website too.)

Surface
is a fundamental change in the way we interact with computers.
Microsoft says they will be selling this from the winter of 2007.
(Flash website. Skip the intro.)

Animusic
makes very cool computer animations with music. Do you remember
that "PipeDream" video-clip from a few years back?
Check their downloads section for samples.

You can convert the videoclips to audio files using
ListenToYoutube,
then maybe edit the annoying parts using Audacity,
and also fix the volume.

ASMR

ASMR (Autonomous
Sensory Meridian Response) is a tingling sensation under the
skin, somewhat like goosebumps under the skin; the intense
tingles feel like electricity flowing through the branches of a
lightning. The tingling starts from the back of the head and may
move down the spine.

The oldest ASMR experiences may be remembered from childhood,
when children hear their mothers or fathers whisper loving words
and caress them.

Not all people experience ASMR.

ASMR is triggered, for example, by faint noises which occur in
a silent environment, like:

Slow whispering (not a low volume voice, but whispering
slowly).

Slow breathing.

Soft sounds made by the mouth, like the movements of the
lips and tongue.

Hair or skin being slowly brushed.

Slowly handling paper, like turning book pages.

The movement of the clothes of a person who moves slowly,
especially of stiffer clothes.

The movement of clothes on a leather armchair.

Dusting.

Intense sounds, like accelerating sport car engines.

Whispering is the most effective factor, triggering ASMR in
75% of people (who experience ASMR).

Below are some videoclips which are relaxing and may even
trigger ASMR in you; their effect is unlikely to be as intense as
it can be when triggered by physical events in a quiet
environment. It may be better to listen rather than watch because
the brain can relax more when it doesn't have to concentrate on
watching.

Some of the files below need to be heavily edited (to remove
annoying sounds from them).